simplify the rational expression. State any restrictions on the variable.

q^2 + 11q +24/q^2 - 5q - 24

Question

simplify the rational expression. State any restrictions on the variable.

q^2 + 11q +24/q^2 - 5q - 24

anonymous · Answer

@tcarroll010

abb0t · Answer

It might help to simplify by factoring the numerator and denominator and cross cancelling.

abb0t · Answer

$$\frac{ (x+3)(x+8) }{ (x+3)(x-8) } = $$

anonymous · Answer

$$\frac{ (q + 8)\cancel {(q + 3)} }{ (q - 8)\cancel {(q + 3)} } = \frac{ q + 8 }{ q - 8 }$$and you cannot have q =8 or q = -3

abb0t · Answer

How did you do that crossing out?! :O

anonymous · Answer

First, good luck in all of youstudies and thx for the recognition!

Second, this box uses Latex formatting, so I did a backslash cancel and put what I wanted cancelled in between curly braces.  Try it!

anonymous · Answer

I spelled out backslash but when you use it, you just use the symbol, then the word cancel, then followed by what you want to cancel inside curly braces.